After tasting it, he felt that it tasted good and his family was more prosperous, and said to Du Fangling: "Give me ten cents." ”

"Hey, okay." Du Fangling was overjoyed, and hurriedly borrowed the scale of the stall next door and weighed the man.

Du Jinning said again: "Third sister, call this uncle six taels." ”

In ancient times, it was called sixteen taels and one catty, and one-third of sixteen was not easy to weigh, so it was simply generous and directly weighed six taels.

Seeing Du Jinning's generosity, the uncle was also very comfortable.

Six taels of dried tofu, there is indeed a large handful, the portion is full, and it looks very cost-effective. Other people who were still hesitant also bought: "Girl, give me ten cents." ”

"Can I ask for five cents?"

"Okay, of course." Du Jinning said with a smile. Seeing that there was no more dried tofu in the lotus leaf in his hand, he put down the lotus leaf, asked another stall owner to borrow it, and also helped weigh it.

Chinese people have a herd mentality, and no one cares about this yellow-brown ugly tofu curd, and everyone doesn't even look at it. But at this time, I saw that a group of people seemed to be crazy about something, and the people passing by also came over curiously and asked, "What is this selling?" ”

Du Jinning has a flexible brain, here he is called dried tofu, and he also helps Du Fangling calculate the money by the way, but he can still find time to answer the questions of passers-by: "Dried tofu, secret dried tofu, salty and refreshing, a big bag of ten cents." Would you like to have one? ”

In this way, in Du Fanghui's stunned, they stood for half a day and didn't sell a piece of dried tofu, and it was sold out within two quarters of an hour - the reason why it took so long was because Du Fangling and Du Jinning were too busy, and the guests had to wait, one by one, queue up to weigh and pay the money.

"These are not sold, these are not sold. If necessary, please come back to this place tomorrow. Du Jinning saw that there were still twenty or thirty pieces of dried tofu left, so he hurriedly stopped.

"Why don't you sell it?" Not only the people who buy dried tofu can't understand it, but even the Du Fangling sisters don't understand it either.

"Just now, the two stall owners generously lent it to us, so we naturally have to leave some dried tofu to thank us." Du Jinning politely explained to the customer, "Please understand." Uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters-in-law, and sisters-in-law will come back tomorrow. ”

"This little brother is sensible."

Du Jinning's approach also won the favor of some people, and he pointed to the water tofu and said, "Forget it, then bring me two pieces of water tofu." ”

So even with it, the Du family's water tofu was sold a lot after a while.

The stall owner on the right is a woman in her thirties, who also sells water tofu, along with some dried goods such as shiitake mushrooms and fungus. Seeing that Du Fangling took some dried tofu to thank her, she waved her hand again and again: "It's just a weighing, and I haven't lost anything, why am I embarrassed to accept your dried tofu?" Take it back. ”

Du Jinning had a good impression of her. The peers are enemies, and the stall owners on both sides just now are selling tofu, but only this aunt borrowed the name without saying a word, and the others all made excuses to shirk it, so she still went to a slightly farther place to find a butcher shop to borrow the name.

"Auntie, don't shirk, take it, you can also taste our dried tofu. We weren't polite when we borrowed something just now, so don't be polite now. She raised her voice.

The woman had to accept the dried beans, but grabbed a handful of dried shiitake mushrooms and gave them to Du Fangling: "Stew chicken together during the New Year, it is the most mellow." ”

Du Fangling couldn't refuse, so she had to accept the mushrooms.

There are still four or five pieces of water tofu left in the dustpan, according to Du Jinning's meaning, don't wait, take it home and eat it yourself. But Du Fangling and Du Fanghui didn't follow, and said, "Anyway, it's still early, let's wait a while, you go back first." ”

Du Jinning came to the market, in addition to seeing how the business of the two sisters was, there was also a purpose, that is, to buy spices.

Because the teahouse has not yet opened, and I don't know what the future of dried tofu is, and the teahouse requires money to buy shares, she didn't dare to buy more spices last time. Now that the business of dried tofu is good, she has great confidence in the sales of the teahouse, so she naturally has to buy more. Moreover, sooner or later, this dried tofu will attract the attention of people with a heart, and when she goes to buy spices, it is easy for people to touch the door. Before everyone reacted, she had to stock up on some spices.

There is more than one shop that sells spices, Du Jinning was careful, he didn't buy all of them in one, but separately, bought a few things in each store, and finally bought all the things.

With the spices, she planned to say hello to her two sisters and go back, but when she approached the stall, she saw a thin woman in her forties scolding in front of Du Fangling from a distance, and there was a group of people around to watch the excitement. Her heart tightened, and she hurriedly ran over.

“…… We remember your fathers and widows, so we will lend you money. But I haven't seen you pay back for a year, how can anyone do this? When I borrowed the money, I said that I would pay it off within half a year......"

Du Jinning squeezed into the crowd, only to find that the woman was not scolding Du Fangling, but the woman who sold tofu and dried shiitake mushrooms to them.

"Sister-in-law, it's not that we don't pay back, it's just that I had a serious illness half a year ago, and I used up all the money in the family, and I still owe the medicine fee to the hospital. I couldn't get out to do things for the first two or three months, and I didn't make any money, so I ...... Please give me some grace, and I will definitely pay it back when the time comes. The woman was very embarrassed and embarrassed to be collected in public, and explained to the woman with a red face wiping her tears.

"Pay back, what do you pay?" The woman sneered, "You have to tie Brother Yuan'er again at the beginning of the New Year, right?" Are you here to repay or borrow money? I'm telling you, pay back the money as early as possible, otherwise I'll come here every day to ask for debts, and it depends on whether you have such a big face to do business here. ”

"Two months, I will definitely pay you back the money within two months, and I will not go to your house to borrow money in the future, you can rest assured." A male voice came from outside the crowd, followed by a young man in a blue robe squeezing in.

Du Jinning's pupils shrank.

She knew that it was Xu Chengyuan, the one who was a notary public when they made a bet with Liang Xiankuan that day.

Xu Chengyuan walked up to the woman selling tofu and stood still, and called, "Mother, let's go back." ”

The woman didn't have the face to stay here any longer, and choked up and responded, "Okay." He wiped his tears and began to pack his things.

"Brother Yuan, you said this, but I didn't force you. If you have the backbone, make money at home to support your family, and don't go to the book of Narauszizi. Relying on your mother to make money to support you and provide for you to study, you are not ashamed of the boss. The thin woman didn't stay long, and when she had said this, she turned around and left.

"Brother Yuan, don't listen to your aunt. You...... You have to read the book well, do you hear? The woman panicked, pulled Xu Chengyuan's arm, and said anxiously.

"Mother, although the words of the eldest aunt are not good, they are true. I won't go to the academy after the Chinese New Year, and I will teach everything my husband teaches, and I will study at home. At the beginning of spring next year, I will go to take the children's exam. Xu Chengyuan said.

"Are you trying to force your mother to death? If you don't go to the academy, my mother and I won't live. The woman grabbed Xu Chengyuan's flat shoulder that she was about to put on her shoulder, "Your father repeatedly instructed me to provide you with a study before he died......

"I didn't stop studying, I just didn't go to the academy." Xu Chengyuan saw that someone was going to point fingers at him, obviously talking about his family's affairs, he urged, "Mother, let's go home and discuss these things." As he spoke, he picked up his burden and dragged the woman out.

When he squeezed out of the crowd, he was obviously stunned when he saw Du Jinning, and then bowed his head slightly, and pulled his mother out.

When they were far away, Du Fangling sighed: "Really, there are bad relatives everywhere." "Obviously, I miss my own superb grandfather, grandmother and second uncle.

Du Fanghui also has a kinship.

In the past and present life, Du Jinning didn't feel much about it, she said hello to her two sisters and prepared to go home.

"Brother Ning, be careful on the road." Du Fangling thought that she was reminded of the bad memories of what happened just now, and told Du Jinning uneasily.

Du Jinning turned around and smiled at her, hugged things and let passers-by go out of the market.

Going out from the east gate, she was about to go out when she heard someone call her: "Du Jinning." Turning his head, he saw Xu Chengyuan hurriedly walking over from the side, walking in front of her and stopping.